Survey of English Dialects recording in Hanbury, Worcestershire
Description
[Side 1] Ted talks about feeding cattle after poor crop, recalls winter approx. 65 years previously when canals and rivers froze over for 13 weeks, remembers boatmen looking for farm work, discusses farm wages in past and describes typical day, long hours with 6am start and break for 'bait' [= morning snack], describes food taken to work and nosebag for horses, talks briefly about ploughing and harvesting. [Side 2] Ted talks about sheep farming, performs typical conversation between shepherd and farm worker at lambing time, describes how 'tiddler/cade' [= 'lamb rejected by ewe'] reared by other ewe in flock, gives detailed description of calving, incl. use of soap as lubricant and cord round front legs of calf to assist in pulling, explains how to resuscitate calf by blowing in mouth and pumping front legs to start heart beating.
Metadata
| Identifier | p2snxpwt |
| IRN | 726572 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D193 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p2snxpwt |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | 13 Dec 1955 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 55 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 30 sec. |